Browsing: Fair Work Commission and predecessors (2,479 items)


Part-time offer "sensible" alternative to redundancy: FWC

The FWC is seeking feedback on its provisional view that it should order Secure Parking to reinstate a full-time compliance manager to a part-time position, finding Japanese-owned company unfairly dismissed him during a cost-cutting redundancy round.


McDonald's to bargain for first national deal in 13 years

The SDA has gladly dropped multiple bids for supported bargaining at McDonald's stores and franchise outlets after the FWC granted the fast food giant a nationwide single interest authorisation, clearing the way for voluntary multi-employer bargaining.


Protester resigns after employer tipped-off

A worker has resigned from Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital following a FWC finding that her employer can continue with a disciplinary process, after police charged her over a protest at an Israeli restaurant and a doxxing organisation revealed her identity.


Tribunal sets date for emergency fuel order review

Businesses having trouble interpreting or implementing FWC orders requiring reimbursement of contractors' increased fuel costs will have a chance to state their case on Friday, the tribunal said today.


Bench overturns $33K payment to "difficult" worker

A senior FWC member should not have discounted a doctor's evidence that a worker possessed the "sound mind" required to understand the consequences of his resignation, a full bench has found.


No benefit of doubt for unresponsive applicant: FWC

A FWC presidential member has made it clear that he has no patience for applicants who go "incommunicado" once a case begins, asserting that the Commission has the right to "control its own process" to avoid "pointless time wasting".


Dodgy licences justified Uber deactivation: FWC

The FWC has ruled that Uber did not unfairly deactivate a driver who provided fraudulent licences when registering multiple accounts, despite the platform's failure to provide adequate details of his alleged conduct.


"Inappropriate" HR manager exchange no reason for sacking

The FWC has awarded $10,000 compensation to a sacked worker after a HR manager failed to explain why she took stress leave following his "unannounced" visit to her office to respond to a warning letter.


Jackie 'O' stalker's reinstatement in doubt

The FWC has stopped short of reinstating a wharfie potentially not "in the right mind" when he resigned in 2024, after the tribunal became aware of his recent incarceration for stalking radio star Jackie 'O' Henderson.


Emergency fuel orders to apply until diesel below $2

A FWC expert panel has this afternoon made an emergency contractual chain order that will require companies at the top of the supply chain to review petrol prices fortnightly and pay enough to cover owner-driver and transport businesses' increased fuel costs.


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